Local History and Genealogy
Local History and Genealogy links
Digitized Local History Records
The library is continuously working to provide access to digital copies of rare books, newspapers, and other materials in the Local History Archives. This is a growing collection, which is periodically added to. If you encounter difficulties accessing the digital archive collections, please contact the library. Hard copies of these archival records are available to view in the Local History Room.
Digitized Newspaper Collection:
Marie Davis Collection:
The History of the School at North Adams
North Adams United Methodist Church
North Adams Then and Now In Pictures
This is North Adams as Time Goes By
This is North Adams (1962) -titled digitized and available through University of Michigan, HathiTrust site.
Local History & Genealogical Research
Links to items of local historical significance and research links.
Local History
Maxine Kline Randall
North Adams is the hometown of Maxine Kline who played with the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League 1951-1954. The League Players Association has her baseball card and statistics.
James E. Williams
From The Hillsdale Daily News, Tuesday, December 2, 1969. Page 2, column 1
Japanese People Honor Williams
NORTH ADAMS – James E. Williams, son of Mr. and Mrs. E. J. Williams of 307 N. Main St. [sic], North Adams, has been awarded the Good Deed Commendation Medal by the Zenkokai Association of the Japanese government for his outstanding assistance to the Japanese people.
Mr. Williams, 47, is a United States citizen and a parasitologist at the department of medical zoology, 406th Medical Laboratory of the U.S. Army medical command in Japan. He has been in Japan since Jan. 22, 1952. He has devoted the better part of his life to research, control and eradication of two serious diseases which have plagued Japan for centuries, tosomiasis and paragonimiasis. [sic]
[There is much more to this article, including a photograph. At the time of the above award, he had been in living in Japan, working on this problem, for 17 years. The park on East Main Street here in North Adams, is named for him.]
More info can be found here:
http://jid.oxfordjournals.org/content/115/4/382.extract
In Memorium - Hillsdale County Heroes
This link will take you to scanned images of a scrapbook that is in our library. It is a collection of news clippings from World War II. Local men who sacrificed their lives and one who made it back. This is an extremely large file. It will take time to download and view. (29 pages) To access the index, click here.
Genealogical Research Links
Mitchell Research Center (in Hillsdale)
